Can Colombia's new peace agreement hold all parties to account?
Nov 26, 2016 03:00 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
After a first peace agreement was rejected in a plebiscite, the Colombian government has signed a revised agreement with the FARC, a radical left-wing guerrilla group that has fought against the state for five decades. It...
Tony Blair is back – but is there space for him?
Nov 25, 2016 22:29 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Tony Blair is back. He started to pop up during the Brexit debate and has now revealed that he plans to set up a centrist think tank and to make more direct interventions. It seems Labours most successful prime minister...
Post-truth leaders are all about their followers
Nov 25, 2016 20:41 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
We have been told we now live in a post-truth era. The author and academic Ralph Keyes has described it as a time when we do not have just lies and truths, but also statements that may not be true but we consider too...
The seeds of the alt-right, America's emergent right-wing populist movement
Nov 25, 2016 09:39 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
In recent months, far-right activists which some have labeled the alt-right have gone from being an obscure, largely online subculture to a player at the very center of American politics. Long relegated to the...
US Election Series: Just when you thought it’s over
Nov 24, 2016 08:55 am UTC| Commentary Politics
Just when you thought this years exhaustive election with all of its drama is over, it might not just be. Cries from Activists have become so louder over recounting, that it might actually happen in some of the key...
Donald Trump is wrong to back track on Clinton probe
Nov 23, 2016 09:58 am UTC| Commentary Politics
Donald Trump backtracked on one of his campaign promises that he would appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Hillary Clintons use of private email server. Through the most part of his campaign, he has been a fierce...
It wasn't just 'fake news' presenting a fake Hillary Clinton
Nov 23, 2016 02:00 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Despite Hillary Clintons long and demonstrable commitment to public service and liberal reform, many voters in the 2016 presidential election were persuaded that she was corrupt, mercenary and even murderous. A sinister...